[ He avoids eye contact, embarrassment pricking him further, but doesn't evade linking arms.
As they head upstairs, he's still protesting. ] You shouldn't make too much of it. I just have too many thoughts and try to get them to go away. [ Hence why many of his poems are far from as pleasant as this one. It wasn't until Miles, actually, that any of them had been pleasant at all. Gregor just never felt the urge to write while he was in a good mood; he didn't realize you could stew in them the same way you could dark ones.
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As they head upstairs, he's still protesting. ] You shouldn't make too much of it. I just have too many thoughts and try to get them to go away. [ Hence why many of his poems are far from as pleasant as this one. It wasn't until Miles, actually, that any of them had been pleasant at all. Gregor just never felt the urge to write while he was in a good mood; he didn't realize you could stew in them the same way you could dark ones.
Something new he's learned. ]